Four arrested in alleged Rehoboth attempted abduction

Four men were arrested for trying to abduct a jogger in Rehoboth on Monday, according to the Rehoboth Police Department.

Marc Larocque

Four men were arrested for trying to abduct a jogger in Rehoboth on Monday, according to the Rehoboth Police Department.

Phillip Muggle, 29, of Rehoboth; Benjamin Gould, 23, of Plainville; James Gould, 27, of Plainville; and Ryan McCoy, 23, of Attleboro, were arrested. All of them were charged with attempted kidnapping and disturbing the peace, while McCoy, Gould and Muggle were also charged with trespassing and resisting arrest.

Police were initially dispatched to the area of Tremont Street around 9:40 a.m. for a call about an attempted abduction of a woman who was jogging.

According to police, the victim said she was out for a run with her pet German shepherd when she observed a maroon minivan traveling toward her at a very slow speed; the minivan went up the road and turned around and headed back toward her.

The victim described the minivan driver as a white male in his late 20s.

Concerned that the men were coming back to abduct her, she knocked on a nearby door to no avail and then hid in a nearby wooded area while the minivan lurked nearby, said police.

At this point, police came and found one of the suspects walking in the area, and his vehicle was discovered in the parking lot of Chartley Plaza on Tremont Street.

A description was released to Rehoboth residents in the area through reverse 911; several tips came in response. Over the next five hours, police used the information supplied by tipsters to track the suspects in wooded areas and cranberry bogs.

Rehoboth police said they were assisted by the Attleboro police, Seekonk police, and the Rehoboth Police K-9 Unit.